What are some alternative approaches to deleting entries and updating auto_increment values in PHP?

When deleting entries from a database table with an auto_increment column, the auto_increment values may become non-sequential. To address this, one approach is to update the auto_increment values after deleting entries by reordering them sequentially. This can be achieved by resetting the auto_increment value to the highest existing value in the table. 

// Connect to the database
$connection = new mysqli("localhost", "username", "password", "database");

// Delete entries from the table
$deleteQuery = "DELETE FROM table_name WHERE condition";
$connection->query($deleteQuery);

// Update auto_increment value
$updateQuery = "ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = 1";
$connection->query($updateQuery);

// Close the database connection
$connection->close();

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SQL queries DELETE statement UPDATE statement AUTO_INCREMENT PHPMyAdmin

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